To get started with photoshop
Photoshop Was originated from the design software Adobe Illustrator, which expected to sell a modest several hundred copies per month. Photoshop became integral to many diverse industries, including publishing, Web design, etc.
Earlier, Adobe included Photoshop in their Adobe Creative Suite, which bundled the program with Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat, and the next year it renamed the program Photoshop CS. Adobe Photoshop CS3, introduced in 2007, offers features that give users greater control over their digital images. For example, nondestructive editing allows the user to test alternative editing strategies without altering the original picture. Another feature, advanced compositing, automatically aligns similar images to create a single representation out of several photographs.
.. Pen tools
..move tools
..cut tools
..selection tools
..erasers
..fill
..brush tools
These tools above are really important when it comes to Photoshop
Here are some tools and their functions
Move Tool usee for Moving selections, layers, guides, etc
Marquee Tools used for Making rectangular, elliptical, single row and much more
Lasso Tools whcich Makes free-hand, polygonal, and magnetic selections
Quick Selection Tool can be used to "paint" a selection using a round brush tip
Magic Wand Tool helps in Selecting similarly colored areas
Eyedropper Tool helps in Sampling colors in an image
Color Sampler Tool Samples up to four areas of the image.
Ruler Tool Measures distances, locations, etc
Slice Select Tool Selects slices
Spot Healing Brush Tool Quickly removes blemishes and imperfections
Brush Tool Paints brush strokes
Pencil Tool Paints hard-edged strokes.
Color Replacement Tool changes one color to another.
Dodge Tool Lightens areas in an image.
Burn Tool Darkens areas in an image
Pen Tools Draw smooth-edged paths
Path Selection Tools Make shape or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and directions.
Hand Tool Moves an image within its window.
Pattern Stamp Tool Paints with a part of an image as a pattern
Eraser Tool Erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state.
Background Eraser tool Erases areas to transparency by dragging
Gradient Tool Creates straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, etc
Paint Bucket Tool Fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color
Blur Tool Blurs hard edges in an image.
Sharpen Tool Sharpens soft edges in an image
Those are really important things you should know about photoshop before getting to work on it
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